Estimating Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) is of utmost importance for developing Cyber-Physical and Safety-Critical Systems. The system’s scheduler uses the estimated WCET to schedule each task of these systems, and failure may lead to catastrophic events. It is thus imperative to build provably reliable systems. WCET is available to us in the last stage of systems development when the hardware is available and the application code is compiled on it. Different methodologies measure the WCET, but none of them give early insights on WCET, which is crucial for system development. If the system designers overestimate WCET in the early stage, then it would lead to the overqualified system, which will increase the cost of the final product, and if they underestimate WCET in the early-stage, then it would lead to financial loss as the system would not perform as expected.This paper estimates early WCET using Deep Neural Networks as an approximate predictor model for hardware architecture and compiler. This model predicts the WCET based on the source code without compiling and running on the hardware architecture. Our WCET prediction model is created using the Pytorch framework. The resulting WCET is too erroneous to be used as an upper bound on the WCET. However, getting these results in the early stages of system development is an essential prerequisite for the system’s dimensioning and configuration of the hardware setup.


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    Title :

    Deep Neural Network Approach to Estimate Early Worst-Case Execution Time


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    Publication date :

    2021-10-03


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    2101578 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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